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Patented Oct. 31, 1893.

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JAMES FARLOW, OF GREENOASTLE, INDIANA.

WASHING- MACHINE.

SPECITIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 507,532, dated October31, 1893.

Application filed April 12, 1893.

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES FARLOW, a citizen of the United States,residing at Greencastle, in the county of Putnam and State of Indiana,have invented a new and useful Washing-Machine, of which the followingis a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in Washing machines.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction ofwashing machines, to facilitate the operation of washing and lessen thelabor connected therewith, and to enable clothes and other fabrics to bethoroughly washed without liability of wearing, tearing or otherwiseinjuring them.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawingsFigure 1 is a perspective View of a washing machineconstructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a centralvertical longitudinal sectional view, the rubbing roll being shown inend elevation. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawings. I

1 designates a Washing machine body supported by legs 2, and providedwith a sheet metal bottom 3 to enable water and suds to be heated andmaintained in a heated condition by a liquid hydro-carbon burner 4. Theliquid hydro-carbon burner is provided with a vertical tube or pipe 5supporting a reservoir 6, and it is provided at the bottom of thevertical tube with a T-shaped portion 7, arranged beneath the bottom ofthe washing machine body at one end thereof and having one of the burnerarms 8 projecting from the body at one end thereof, whereby water may besimultaneously heated in a boiler 9, and the washing machine body 1. Theboiler 9 is supported by horizontal arms 10, projecting from one end ofthe Washing machine body and having pivoted to their outer ends legs 11,which are connected at their lower end-s by a cross-piece 12.

The sides of the body are provided with open bearings 13receivingjournals 14 of a rubbing Serial No. 470,128. m. model.)

roll 15; the journals are preferably formed by a shaft extending throughthe roller and projecting from the ends thereof; and one of the journalsor ends of the shaft is extended to form a crank handle 16. On the endsof the rubbing rolls are arranged circular bearing plates 17, which areprovided on their inner faces with annular flanges 18 bearing againstthe ends of the roll; and the plates are Socured to the roll byfastening devices arranged at the inside and outside of the annularflange. These plates serve to prevent the ends of the roll from bindingagainst the sides of the washing machine body and sticking.

The face .Olf the roll is provided with series of knobs or projections19, having rounded convex ends and serving the purpose of knuckles andco-operating with a yielding carried over the curved rubbing surface 21of the bed 20.

The bed consists of a frame, and is capable of vertical movement, and ismounted on vertical pins 22 on which are disposed spiral springs 23 forforming cushions. The vertical pins 22 extend upward from a rectangularframe 24, which rests upon the bottom of the washing machine body. Thesides of the bed are provided with vertical strips 25 of leather orsimilar material to enable the bed to fit sufficiently snug withoutliability of binding or sticking by swelling or the like.

The rubbing roll is held down upon the clothes being washed withsufficient pressure to carry the clothes back and forth over the rubbingsurface of the bed by V shaped springs 26, arranged at the sides of thewashing machine body on the outer faces thereof. Each spring is disposedsubstantially horizontally and consists of upper and lower arms 27 and28, and a connecting coil 29 of wire forming an eye and receiving apivot bolt 30, which secures the spring to the body. The lower arm 28 ofthe spring engages the adjacent journal of the rubbing roll, and theupper arm 27 is engaged by a vertically disposed spring catch 32,provided with an eye at its lower end to receive a bolt 33 and hav ing ashoulder or tooth 34 at its upper end for vengaging the upper arm of thespring. By means of the supporting spiral springs and the V-shapedsprings, both the roll and the bed are yieldingly mounted, and clothesmay be passed back and forth over the rubbing surface of the bed and berubbed without liability of tearing, wearing or otherwise in uringfabrics of heavy or light nature.

'lhe washing machine body has the said boiler located at one end, andits other end has secured to it a detachable shelf 35, which has tsinner edge recessed at the sides and provided with eyes 36 to engagebooks 37 of the body. The shelf has a brace 38 hinged to ts lower face,and the brace when in pos tion bears against a cleat 39 disposedvertically on the body.

Du ring the operation of washing the clothes are boiled in the usualmanner in the boiler at one end of the machine, and are taken therefromand passed back and forth over the rubbing surface of a bed which servesto rub and wring, and after passing through this operation they areplaced on the shelf ready to hang up for drying. In washing the clothesare moved back and forth over the rubbing surface of the bed byreversely semiosc llating the rubbing roll, and when it is desired toascertain whether or not the clothes have been sufficiently rubbed theroll may be completely rotated several times to carry all the clothesbefore the eye of the operator.

The crank handle is provided with a gutta percha sleeve, which may be ofsome other substance that is a non-conductor of heat to prevent theoperator being burned. The sides of the body are provided with handles40 of similar material each of which is mounted on a rod 4:1 having itsends threaded and provided with nuts 42 and arranged in openings of arms43. The arms 43 are provided at their outer ends with threaded openings,in which are mounted binding screws a l for clamping the rods againstlongitudinal movement.

It will be seen that the washing apparatus is complete and dispenseswith the necessity of employing tubs, and that the operation of washingmay be quickly and thoroughly effooted without injury to fabrics.

Changes in the form, proportion and the minor details of constructionmay be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificingany of the advantages of this invention.

What I claim is In a washing machine the combination of a body havingbearing slots, a bed having a rubbing surface, a rubbing roll providedwith extended journals arranged in the bearing slots, the horizontallydisposed pivotally mounted V-shaped springs having their pivots arrangedat their apexes and having their lower arms engaging thejournals andadapted to swing on their pivots to release the journals, and the springcatches vertically disposed on the body and secured thereto at theirlower ends and provided at their upper ends with teeth engaging theupper arms of the springs, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES FARLOW.

Witnesses:

THOMAS ABRAMS, WILLIE F. WILLIAMS.

